lemaymiami
09-20-2006, 06:59 AM
Although I didn't have any fly anglers this week, here's what we've been seeing...
I divided my time this week, fishing out of Flamingo on the weekend and Biscayne Bay on Monday. Although the Monday was only a half day, the fish were turned on around Government Cut. We caught and released an upper slot snook, two 'cudas, a large jack, jumped off a 70llb tarpon, and hooked something that was just unstoppable (which we fought up and down the Cut for almost an hour...). The best fish on Monday was one of the largest 'cudas I've handled in years. The fish was almost five feet long and we estimated it at around 45lbs. Not bad for 15lb line... It looks like this fall the coastal areas around Biscayne Bay will have a great mullet run. We saw a school or two getting hammered along the rocks...
The fishing out of Flamingo continues to be very good. On Saturday local anglers Miguel Nido and his 11 year old son Andreas fished the Gulf coast with me. We started the day off with a few nice trout in Whitewater Bay then ran outside where some large tarpon have been loafing. We jumped two big ones (at least 100lbs..) on both lure and bait, then ran north hunting reds and snook. We found fish at almost every river mouth on lures and bait. All were slot sized or over slot sized fish. At the end of the day both father and son had backcountry slams of snook, reds, and trout. If the tarpon had stayed connected it would have been grand slams...
The key to fishing the 'Glades right now is to look for current and any place that fish can set up and wait for that current to provide food... River and creek mouths are at the head of the list on either tide. Most of our fish have been taken from at least three feet of water on jigs and soft plastics. There's still plenty of opportunities to score with top water plugs, particularly early each day. The Gulf coast will just continue to get better and better for the next four or five weeks as we move toward cooler water temps. This is also the time when an occasional very large redfish can be found prowling a shore line. We're talking about one of the big breeders in the 20 to 40lb range... You just won't see one shallow any other time of the year, but there won't be very many....the ones we do find will be great sight fishing targets.
I divided my time this week, fishing out of Flamingo on the weekend and Biscayne Bay on Monday. Although the Monday was only a half day, the fish were turned on around Government Cut. We caught and released an upper slot snook, two 'cudas, a large jack, jumped off a 70llb tarpon, and hooked something that was just unstoppable (which we fought up and down the Cut for almost an hour...). The best fish on Monday was one of the largest 'cudas I've handled in years. The fish was almost five feet long and we estimated it at around 45lbs. Not bad for 15lb line... It looks like this fall the coastal areas around Biscayne Bay will have a great mullet run. We saw a school or two getting hammered along the rocks...
The fishing out of Flamingo continues to be very good. On Saturday local anglers Miguel Nido and his 11 year old son Andreas fished the Gulf coast with me. We started the day off with a few nice trout in Whitewater Bay then ran outside where some large tarpon have been loafing. We jumped two big ones (at least 100lbs..) on both lure and bait, then ran north hunting reds and snook. We found fish at almost every river mouth on lures and bait. All were slot sized or over slot sized fish. At the end of the day both father and son had backcountry slams of snook, reds, and trout. If the tarpon had stayed connected it would have been grand slams...
The key to fishing the 'Glades right now is to look for current and any place that fish can set up and wait for that current to provide food... River and creek mouths are at the head of the list on either tide. Most of our fish have been taken from at least three feet of water on jigs and soft plastics. There's still plenty of opportunities to score with top water plugs, particularly early each day. The Gulf coast will just continue to get better and better for the next four or five weeks as we move toward cooler water temps. This is also the time when an occasional very large redfish can be found prowling a shore line. We're talking about one of the big breeders in the 20 to 40lb range... You just won't see one shallow any other time of the year, but there won't be very many....the ones we do find will be great sight fishing targets.